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A hub for the UK’s climate innovation community: a partnership between Imperial Grantham Institute (@granthamicl.bsky.social) and The Royal Institution (@ri-science.bsky.social). https://undaunted-hq.org/

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🎫 Grab the hottest #AI ticket in town: hubs.ly/Q045_Vlt0

📣 Spaces for the @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social AI Collider are going fast, powered by our fantastic line-up of speakers and panellists from #ImperialCollege, #Lenovo, #NVIDIA and more!

10.03.2026 09:22 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Apply for EarthScale - EarthScale Find out more about the EarthScale programme, eligibility criteria and how to maximise your application when applying.

Another great opportunity for #ClimateTech ventures: the EarthScale programme. Apply to join Cohort 2! The deadline is 13 April. More info: earthscale.co.uk/home/apply-f... @undaunted-hq.bsky.social

06.03.2026 13:50 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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📢 Climate innovators: THREE opportunities open for applications right now (if you know someone who'd benefit, tag them!)

1️⃣ The Greenhouse: undaunted-hq.org/programmes/t...

2️⃣ EarthScale: earthscale.co.uk/home/apply-f...

3️⃣ Climate Investment Challenge: www.climateinvestmentchallenge.org/apply-2026

05.03.2026 11:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Are you an ambitious early-stage cleantech, fintech, or deeptech startup seeking support to grow?

Are you an ambitious early-stage cleantech, fintech, or deeptech startup seeking support to grow?

Need guidance on validating your business model, landing pilots, and raising investment?

Need guidance on validating your business model, landing pilots, and raising investment?

£20k equity-free grant funding

12-month programme to move from lab to commercial traction

Free office space in London

Access Imperial’s world-class facilities, expertise, and networks

Coaching and mentoring from experienced entrepreneurs and industry experts

Sound good?

£20k equity-free grant funding 12-month programme to move from lab to commercial traction Free office space in London Access Imperial’s world-class facilities, expertise, and networks Coaching and mentoring from experienced entrepreneurs and industry experts Sound good?

Apply now! Deadline: 10 April 2026

Apply now! Deadline: 10 April 2026

APPLY NOW! The Greenhouse supports ambitious early-stage ClimateTech startups to validate their business models, land pilots & raise investment

Are you or anyone you know a next-gen climate innovator?

👉 Share this post or tag them

🔗 undaunted-hq.org/programmes/the-greenhouse/

Deadline: 10 April

02.03.2026 12:42 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

As we prepare for our arts event in June (more on that in the coming weeks), today we're highlighting the work of CO2RE Artists Studio Blue Green. 🧵 #SciArt

27.02.2026 09:02 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Climate tech solutions. Built to scale.

Climate tech solutions. Built to scale.

VACANCY: Our EarthScale team is hiring!

We're seeking a talented fundraising manager to secure the future of the climate solutions collaborative, ensuring a lasting future for the network and structures created across the UK in our EarthScale project.

➡️ www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

26.02.2026 11:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Greenhouse Cohort 10. Applications open 2 March 2026

The Greenhouse Cohort 10. Applications open 2 March 2026

📢 ANNOUNCEMENT 📢 Applications for The Greenhouse open 2 March!

#CleanTech founders & startups: considering applying for our flagship accelerator?

Join an online Q&A to meet the team, learn what makes a strong application & ask qus: luma.com/greenhouse-u...

@granthamicl.bsky.social @rigb.org

24.02.2026 12:04 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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When Peat Speaks: A Boggy Gassy Bubbly Ensemble, By Miranda Whall A music/dance/visual art performance on a degraded ‘Cinderella’ peat bog in the Cambrian Mountains of West Wales at sunset.

📣 Coming this spring! "When Peat Speaks: A Boggy Gassy Bubbly Ensemble". 23 May, Cambrian Mountains, West Wales, 6:50pm. CO2RE artist Miranda Whall will stage a multisensory sunset performance on a peat bog. More info, incl. tickets & travel details: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/when-peat-...

20.02.2026 11:35 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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UK First -  Innovative Hemp Studs Installed at Sciopolis Innovation Hub in North Acton - Construction Industry Today London, UK – 17 February 2026 – BioTwin, a developer of low-carbon alternatives to conventional construction products, today announced the first UK installation of its hemp-based BioStud partition stu...

BioTwin's innovative hemp studs installed at Sciopolis! This significant step towards low-carbon building solutions demonstrates how plant-based construction tech can be integrated into major dev projects without compromising performance or efficiency: constructionindustrytoday.co.uk/2026/02/17/u...

19.02.2026 14:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Meet the Mentors - Anders Hakfelt (Climate Solutions Catalyst)
Meet the Mentors - Anders Hakfelt (Climate Solutions Catalyst) YouTube video by Grantham Institute, Imperial College London

Behind every climate solution is a team of people making it possible.

Our work at Undaunted wouldn’t be possible without extraordinary mentors who support and challenge our innovators along the way. We’re deeply grateful to them for the time & insights they share 🙏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv_8...

18.02.2026 10:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Green Innovation Challenge: Pitch Event. Celebrate innovation, hear fresh ideas, and help select the winners of our five-week innovation-development programme. 4 March 2026. 14.00 - 17.00 GMT. Location: Imperial College London, Room 164, Skempton Building, South Kensington Campus.

Green Innovation Challenge: Pitch Event. Celebrate innovation, hear fresh ideas, and help select the winners of our five-week innovation-development programme. 4 March 2026. 14.00 - 17.00 GMT. Location: Imperial College London, Room 164, Skempton Building, South Kensington Campus.

Seven interdisciplinary teams will present bold, science-backed climate solutions developed over our five-week innovation-development programme.

Seven interdisciplinary teams will present bold, science-backed climate solutions developed over our five-week innovation-development programme.

Join us to help people and the planet by supporting new climate solutions

Join us to help people and the planet by supporting new climate solutions

Are you into:

🤝 Collaboration

🫴 Supporting early career researchers

💪 Translating research into climate change solutions

👁️‍🗨️ Exploring: biochar; nitrogen circularity; rock weathering; ammonia; urban flooding; MRV

➡️ Join us on 4 March! www.imperial.ac.uk/events/20580...

@granthamicl.bsky.social

17.02.2026 09:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Partnering with Undaunted on novel climate solutions Scientists from UKCEH and students from Imperial College London are working together to come up with novel climate solutions in the Green Innovation Challenge. This joint initiative between UKCEH and ...

Learn more about what they got up to: www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med...

12.02.2026 17:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Developing Climate Solutions - the Green Innovation Challenge 💡
Developing Climate Solutions - the Green Innovation Challenge 💡 YouTube video by UKCEH

What do you get when you put early career researchers from @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social in a room with scientists at the @ukceh.bsky.social & get them pondering how to turn environmental research into real-world climate solutions? The Green Innovation Challenge!⤵️

www.youtube.com/shorts/LozCa...

12.02.2026 17:02 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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📈 Tracking our impact in numbers - Imperial Enterprise metrics for 2024 - 2025

Dive into our data: hubs.ly/Q03-q2GY0

19.01.2026 09:16 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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🎉 Exciting collaboration!

UKCEH & @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social have joined forces on the @undaunted-hq.bsky.social Green Innovation Challenge to turn research into climate solutions.

Teams met for an ideathon on themes like biochar, nitrogen & urban flooding. They'll pitch ideas in March!

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06.02.2026 14:49 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Explore the future of cement. Our panel brings together perspectives from academia, policy, industry and finance. Followed by networking and drinks. Rebuilding Concrete and Cement. Thursday, 12 February 2026. 18.00 - 21.00. Business School Lecture Theatre, Imperial Business School.

Explore the future of cement. Our panel brings together perspectives from academia, policy, industry and finance. Followed by networking and drinks. Rebuilding Concrete and Cement. Thursday, 12 February 2026. 18.00 - 21.00. Business School Lecture Theatre, Imperial Business School.

Concrete is the second most used material on earth, behind only water. We need to consider how we manufacture and deliver this vital material in the face of climate change.

Join us to take a hard look at rebuilding #concrete and #cement.

➡️ www.imperial.ac.uk/events/20450...

26.01.2026 11:12 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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7️⃣ Reasons to be Undaunted by climate change in 2026.

Brought to you by @undaunted-hq.bsky.social Imperial College London cleantech start-ups, here's a list of pioneering companies engineering solutions to the climate crisis 🧵

buff.ly/4oIJp1P

14.01.2026 10:57 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

⬆️ @granthamicl.bsky.social @rigb.org @imperialenterprise.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @co2rehub.bsky.social @londoncsc.bsky.social @imperialmaterials.bsky.social

09.01.2026 10:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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7 reasons to be Undaunted in 2026 Solutions to help us mitigate and adapt to the climate crisis are shaping a more sustainable future. Here are seven reasons why we’re Undaunted...

👍 7 reasons to be Undaunted in 2026 👍

Solutions to help us mitigate and adapt to the climate crisis are shaping a more sustainable future.

Here are seven reasons why, even though the challenge is huge, #WeAreUndaunted in the face of climate change: www.imperial.ac.uk/news/article...

09.01.2026 10:01 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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The countdown begins 🚀 Set your reminders for the 2025 Christmas Lectures, supported by CGI: 28, 29 and 30 December at 7.00pm on BBC Four and iPlayer.

Space scientist Maggie Aderin-Pocock will take us on a whistle-stop tour of the Universe searching for evidence of extra-terrestrial life.

22.12.2025 12:35 👍 37 🔁 16 💬 2 📌 8
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Don’t miss out on the opportunity to be a part of the Climate Research Showcase, returning on 4 March 2026.

Postgrad or professor, the Showcase will bring together Imperial’s world-leading climate research & innovation community.

Submissions open until 4 Feb!

Find out more: buff.ly/EHnmlC1

19.12.2025 11:00 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Maggie Aderin-Pocock sitting in the iconic magenta seats at the Ri Theatre

Maggie Aderin-Pocock sitting in the iconic magenta seats at the Ri Theatre

Ready for lift-off? 🚀

The 2025 Christmas Lectures, supported by CGI, will be on BBC Four and iPlayer on 28, 29 and 30 December at 7.00pm GMT.

Join space scientist Maggie Aderin-Pocock as she takes us on a whistle-stop tour of our universe in search of extra-terrestrial life.

04.12.2025 13:27 👍 34 🔁 11 💬 5 📌 4
Season's greetings! As we wrap up the year, we want to extend our warmest holiday wishes and heartfelt thanks. 

In the face of climate change, your support reminds us that we are never tackling it alone. Our community continues to be undaunted and because of you, bold ideas grow faster, founders aim higher, and progress is accelerated. 

Thank you for standing with us, for sharing your expertise, and for helping build the future we all want to see.

Season's greetings! As we wrap up the year, we want to extend our warmest holiday wishes and heartfelt thanks. In the face of climate change, your support reminds us that we are never tackling it alone. Our community continues to be undaunted and because of you, bold ideas grow faster, founders aim higher, and progress is accelerated. Thank you for standing with us, for sharing your expertise, and for helping build the future we all want to see.

In the face of climate change, your support reminds us that we are never tackling it alone. Our Undaunted community helps bold ideas grow faster and founders aim higher.

Thank you for standing with us, sharing your expertise, and helping build the future we all want to see. See you in 2026!

22.12.2025 10:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
GGR Insights: MRV for sustainable and credible GGR in a global context
GGR Insights: MRV for sustainable and credible GGR in a global context YouTube video by CO₂RE - The Greenhouse Gas Removal Hub

If you're interested in how we can monitor, report & verify greenhouse gas removal, check out the recording of our most recent GGR Insights webinar, "MRV for sustainable and credible GGR in a global context": youtu.be/nJ2_-C_tC0U?...

15.12.2025 09:09 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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CHRISTMAS LECTURES Dame Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock will take us on an epic voyage through time and space, in the 2025 CHRISTMAS LECTURES from the Royal Institution, supported by CGI.

Undaunted is working towards a cleaner, more equitable & sustainable future on Earth... We're also intrigued by what's going on beyond... so 2025's @rigb.org Christmas Lectures is our top TV viewing this hol!

Is there life beyond Earth? w/ Dame Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock ➡️ www.rigb.org/christmas-le...

16.12.2025 13:59 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
People talk to each other at an event. They are standing in a big room with a glass ceiling. The ceiling has triangular shapes built into it. Through the ceiling the storey above where the people are standing is visible.

People talk to each other at an event. They are standing in a big room with a glass ceiling. The ceiling has triangular shapes built into it. Through the ceiling the storey above where the people are standing is visible.

As part of the Greenhouse Gas Removal Demonstrators (GGR-D) programme, CO2RE examines the environmental, economic, social, cultural, legal & governance issues around GGR. Some of CO2RE's key findings (🧵):

12.12.2025 09:01 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Our panel

Our panel

Our panel

Our panel

Our panel: Sarah Jones, Stafford Lloyd, Gyen Ming Angel, Alyssa Gilbert - bring perspectives from investment, public funding, venture building, academia.

Covering lots incl.: the power of cross-sector collaboration; how to inspire academic entrepreneurship; the importance of early-stage support.

11.12.2025 15:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Joanna presents

Joanna presents

Joanna and team

Joanna and team

Dr Joanna Sadler (from @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social) and team from Plasticycle are up next.

Plasticycle is upcycling post-consumer PLA waste into high-value industrial chemicals, aiming to bioengineer a plastic waste-free future.

Learn more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYCV...

11.12.2025 14:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Wenshuo presenting

Wenshuo presenting

Next up we hear from Dr Wenshuo Xu (from @cam.ac.uk) whose innovation team, 2D Cress, is advancing earth-abundant 2D catalysts for green hydrogen production, replacing costly noble metals.

Meet Wenshuo: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQXI...

11.12.2025 14:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0